okay... feeling like Mandrake 8.2 was only as stable as Windows 95, I wiped out my whole linux drive and installed Red Hat 7.2. Hm... all goes well during the installation except I still cannot get any video card/monitor combination/screen resolution combination to work. "Kuzdu" seems to pick correct video card. But when I go to "Xconfiguration" to set up the monitor, no freaking frequency, color mode, or resolution works. I always get an error message telling me the Xconfiguration has an error in it but it doesn't tell what the error is. (talk about design flaw!!) On one of my video cards, Xconfiguration "probes" the monitor for a default color mode/res, but using any setting results in the a black screen except for color streaks at the top and my keyboard locking up. To get back into text mode to make changes, I must swap my video cards, boot, run kuzdu, shutdown, and switch cards again. Arrg.. Then finally I get a graphic mode to work... 320x204x8 mode.
Is there some other app or some extra drivers for Red Hat that's capable for finding the correct configuration without so much hassle?
--Philip
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Is there some other app or some extra drivers for Red Hat that's capable for finding the correct configuration without so much hassle?
--Philip
Links 2.0 moderator
That's what I don't like about Mandrake and Redhat, everything's so dummied down, it's practically windows. You don't learn anything, and you end up with a ton of problems if you're unlucky. Why don't you just use xf86config as well as editing your XF86Config manually (you don't know where it is do you 
)? I've never used those other configuration tools, but I've never had a problem I couldn't fix. As long as you know your hardware (mouse type, monitor specs, video card make/model) you'll be fine. 
